George L. Huttar, Enoch O. Aboh, Felix K. Ameka,
Two creoles of Suriname, Ndyuka and Saramaccan, are compared with each other and with Western Gbe, Eastern Gbe, and other languages of West Africa with respect to relative clause formation. Relativization strategies are described for the syntactic positions subject, direct object, and indirect object, and the semantic roles benefactive, locative, temporal, comitative, instrumental, comparative, and possessor. Omission of relative markers (rel), headless relatives, and other uses of rel are also compared. ...
Tópico(s): Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
2013 - Elsevier BV | Lingua